Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Buy Tickets Director: Roberta Grossman Country: Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, released 2008 Duration: 85 min., Video Language: English Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter, and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary -- the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal